I maintain a url for my wife an elementary school teacher. She saw the mother's day enhancement to the Yahoo logo and wanted to add it to our homepage. If you didn't see it, the logo starts as font similar to a coloring book. Then the logo is colored, in about 2 seconds, with an invisible crayon. I would appreciate any help getting me started with this. I抦 somewhat familiar with java, but by no means a programmer.
Thanks,
That sounds like an animated GIF. While you can write animated GIFs in Java, any sort of graphics is probably a lot harder than you are imagining, if you are "by no means a programmer". Just to see what's involved, take the graphics tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/index.html
Yes, it's most likely easier elsewhere, but just for Java-heads, using ImageIO you can write a GIF, including an animated GIF:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/imageio/package-summary.html
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The GIF writer plug-in supports the creation of animated GIF images through the standard sequence writing methods defined in the ImageWriter class.
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